On 13 November 2010 22:42, wrote:
> I'm gonna have to run through the installer again then, because I don't
> remember seeing it automatically ask me about /home,
It doesn't ask you about /home at all. It's a kinda hidden feature.
> and if you were doing it manually and didn't specify a mount
I'm gonna have to run through the installer again then, because I don't
remember seeing it automatically ask me about /home, and if you were doing it
manually and didn't specify a mount point for /home and didn't format / then
would anything actually happen?
Bodsda
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On 13 November 2010 19:32, wrote:
> [...]
> Is the not formatting /home a new feature? If its not set up as a seperate
> partition, then it is just mounted under / which gets formatted on install
If you specify _not_ to format / then home is left as is. I have just
used this myself to insta
On 13/11/10 17:20, bod...@googlemail.com wrote:
> Hi Nigel,
>
> Last time I checked, there is no supported way of "downgrading" between
> distributions.
>
> I would recommend a clean install of 10.10 first to see if you still get the
> issues, if you do, then reinstall the LTS.
>
> Your proba
On 13 November 2010 19:32, wrote:
> Config files shouldn't be an issue. Any half-decent program will sanity check
> its config files and recreate them if the current ones are
> incompatible/corrupt.
>
Define half-decent. On upgrading from one release to another many
popular programs which we s
Config files shouldn't be an issue. Any half-decent program will sanity check
its config files and recreate them if the current ones are incompatible/corrupt.
And even if they don't, deleting the newer config file will resolve any issues.
Is the not formatting /home a new feature? If its not set
On 13 November 2010 17:20, wrote:
> Your probably aware of this, but if you can set up a seperate partition for
> your /home, this saves an immense amount of backup time when reinstalling as
> you can choose (advanced mode) to only format the / and just mount the old
> /home
>
Not necessary.
On 13 November 2010 16:00, Nigel Verity wrote:
> I've installed Xubuntu 10.10 on my two laptops (Acer and Dell). Both display
> problems with programs crashing that I never encountered on 10.4, though
> they're not the same problems on each. I'm tempted to revert to 10.4 LTS. I
> got from 10.4 to
Hi Nigel,
Last time I checked, there is no supported way of "downgrading" between
distributions.
I would recommend a clean install of 10.10 first to see if you still get the
issues, if you do, then reinstall the LTS.
Your probably aware of this, but if you can set up a seperate partition for
Hi All
A bit of advice please.
I've installed Xubuntu 10.10 on my two laptops (Acer and Dell). Both display
problems with programs crashing that I never encountered on 10.4, though
they're not the same problems on each. I'm tempted to revert to 10.4 LTS. I got
from 10.4 to 10.10 using the
On 11/11/10 15:51, alan c wrote:
[snip]
> I got burned by a nasty bug in the live CD of 10.10 which has the
> effect of wiping your whole hard drive if you should be so unlucky to
> choose a particular install option relating to choosing a *partition*
> (not the whole drive!).
[snip]
> Bug #659106
I think the idea is that it is much faster, if less configurable. Like
the new GDM since 10.04.
Regards,
Tyler
On Sat, 2010-11-13 at 00:50 +, Craig Peden wrote:
> Everyone has it. It is the newer graphical boot/shutdown stuff that I
> think it generated by Plymouth as opposed to the xsplash y
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